Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? article speculates, no evidence

article about thought experiment on pre-Human civilization, no evidence, just wondering how to look

So, could researchers find clear evidence that an ancient species built a relatively short-lived industrial civilization long before our own?
Perhaps, for example, some early mammal rose briefly to civilization building during the Paleocene epoch about 60 million years ago. There are
fossils, of course. But the fraction of life that gets fossilized is always minuscule and varies a lot depending on time and habitat. It would be
easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that only lasted 100,000 years—which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization
has made it so far.

Given that all direct evidence would be long gone after many millions of years, what kinds of evidence might then still exist? The best way to answer
this question is to figure out what evidence we’d leave behind if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.

considering the effect time has on *everything* can't help but think if there were a previous society, we'd never know.

Well, this planet does have the nasty tendency to occasionally completely refresh itself over time with asteroids, volcanoes, earthquakes and so on.
I guess it depends on how somebody wants to define "advanced" or "industrial."

And of course, there's also the chance that the Lizard People gave everything a good scrubbing before they left or destroyed themselves or whatever
they did.

I can imagine that cut diamonds would remain, if the theoretical ancient civilization had value for diamond ornamentation. Other than that ... about
everything would likely be recycled back through the lithosphere.

I guess we would start looking at topographical elevations and their relation to tectonic movements. I would think there were area's better than
others that could endure natural forces. Been a lot of movement though. They may not have necessarily been humanoid in the sense of homo sapiens or
bipedal mammals. India or China might be your best bet to look.

Perhaps even Antarctica. A lot of effort to satisfy a curiosity though. We have become like a parasite on a host, and usually that ends in both
perishing. In the end, we will have learned nothing beyond our savage tendencies to conquer and subjugate.

It's also better we don't pollute other planets, but I fear..... our tendencies lie elsewhere.

Perhaps even Australia.

edit on 18-4-2018 by Plotus because: roses are red, violet are not....

Imagine and ancient civilization.... that killed itself off with "Global Warming"

LOL

Ancient? a supposed post industrial, technological minded civilistion is doing it's best to do it so an ancient civ would have no chance. Unless you
think "golbal warming"/climate change isn't real, if so LOL

originally posted by: Plotus
India or China might be your best bet to look.

You definitely want to look where there has been the least amount of destruction. Possibly the same places where we look for dinosaur bones.
Someplace nice and geologically stable. A big chunk of Canada is apparently that way. So if you can find a stable place that was also used for
cities and manufacturing, maybe you'll come up with some bits of evidence.

Well I think if an advanced civilisation were to be completely wiped off the face of the planet, all they would leave behind would be large granite
buildings, built in such a perfectly alligned way to withstand millenia of earthquakes and weather and I would expect you to find this similar
architecture and building style in other ancient sites around the world, implying the ability to freely communicate and share ideas across large
distances...

This is Ancient Architects YT channel, he has lots of good stuff presented really well.

No evidence? Sure there is, lots of it. Ancient Hindu stories tell of what seem to be atomic bombs being used against an ancient race of people here
on Earth, as well as the resulting radiation poisoning of the survivors. There is also widespread evidence throughout the middle east of atomic
weapons having glassed large swaths of the desert. By glassed, I mean the sand being literally blasted into glass, which happens when you detonate an
atomic bomb over the desert.
Regardless of whether or not individual religions are legitimate, they often contain slivers of truth, and a common theme is the existence of ancient
civilizations that had been wiped out before modern humans came to be.

“…a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns
rose in all its splendor… a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds… …the cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed
into expanding round circles like the opening of giant parasols… ..it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death,
which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. …The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails
fell out. Pottery broke without apparent cause and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this
fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.”

That text does not actually exist where it is said to exist. Childress lied, you should stay away from him.

Note that in Childress the material has been rearranged, lines altered, words dropped, and ellipses added, as though Childress were presenting a
scholarly excerpt from a longer text. But he is not. This text appears in this alleged "translation" nowhere before Morning of the Magicians, and
certainly not in the false poetic form given here, or in the rearranged and misleading conflation presented here.

everything appears to mention the same destruction as a meteor, right down to the mention of iron.

However... Once it gets to this:

The hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without apparent cause and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to
escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.

That I don't really know if it can relate to the same. Is it possible that a meteor strike could cause these effects as well?

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